Crayon-holder.



C. C. FLEMING.

CRAYON HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV- 14. 1914.

1,151,933. I Patented Aug. 31, 1915.

' UNITED STATES FATE CFFICE.

GLARENOE C. FLEMING, OF AMITYVILLE, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO EBERHARD FABEB PENCIL COMPANY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

CRAYON-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters l atent. Patanted Aug. 31, 19115,

Application filed November 14, 1914. Serial No. 872,075.

To all whom it may concern v Be it known that I, CLARENCE C. FLEM- ING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Amityville, in the county of Suffolk and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Crayon- Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a simple and cheap holder for crayons, by the use whereof the fingers may be adequately protected and given an agreeable gripping surface, and the crayon, which is fragile, may be protected, both as to its point and as to its body, and may be utilized even when a substantial portion thereof has been worn away. In the production of colored crayons, it-has been found that there is a variable shrinkage of material when drying, due to which there is a lack of uniformity in the diameter of the finished crayons. For this reason, such a protecting and lengthening holder as I have devised should be, and in the present case is, provided with means adapting it for use with crayons of varying thickness.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a side view, partly. in section, of my improved crayon-holder, with a crayon carried therein; Fig. 2 is a central sectional view, showing the crayon worn down to a short length; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the material of the holder; and Fig. 4 a transverse section on the line 44 Fig. 1, showing, however, a greater number of thicknesses inthe holder than in said last-named figure.

A rimary essential of a commercially practlcable crayon-holder is that it shall be cheap of production. Accordingly, in pro ducing the holder'under disclosure, I preferably employ paper 1, which may be fashioned into a roll 2, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 4, one or both side edges of the material being preferably secured to the body of the roll, as by an adhesive. In so fashioning the material, the roll may be made of two thicknesses or. a greater number thereof,- dependent upon its'character and the do gree of stiffness to be given to the completed roll. Such material is provided at suitable points with perforations 3, punched from the outslde, so as to leave on the inside surface, for coaction with the crayon, 4, to be lns erted 1n the holder, roughened portions ad acent to such perforations, which, however, are yieldable, so as to effectively coact with the crayon. Preferably, these perforations will not extend over the entire area of the sheet of material which is fashioned into the roll, but w1ll terminate such a distanceshort of the outer side edge of the material as that the final covering, 5, of the holder shall be imperforate. By reason of the roughened interior of the holder, the same is adapted for use with crayons of varying diameter, which ma under slight pressure be moved freely within the holder, so that, for instance, the point of the crayon may, for its protection, be pressed back within such holder and also be exposed when it is desired to use the same. Also, when the crayon has become worn, it may readily be pressed out of the holder, so that practically the last remaining portion thereof may be used. The holder, being flexible and in intimate contact with the crayon, not only protects the same against breakage but in the event of accidental breakage can be relied upon to hold thesevered parts of the crayon together so as to permit the same to be utilized.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows A crayon-holder, comprising a closed tube formed of two or more thicknesses of flexible material, provided with perforations forming protuberances for coaction with a crayon inserted within said tube and movable therein, substantially as set forth.

This specification signed and witnessed this 11th day of November, 1914.

Witnesses: I

W. E. EDGERLEY, F. G. HUBER. 

